Documents relating to Sir John Savile

1348. Indenture: Confirmation of grant: John s. [son] of John le Sayvill to Henry le Sayvill his brother in exchange for annual rent of 10 marks from manor of Gouldcross. Henry le Sayvell to have peaceable possession of manor of Willays and mill of Northland and rents etc in Northland and Skircotes.

[Nott Arch DD/SR/209/129]

1353. Deed. John son of Thomas de Lascy gives to John de Bollyng, Elias de Burton and John de Crosseland, chaplain, his manor of Cromwelbothom. Witnesses: Sir Brian de Thornhill, Sir Henry de Sothill, knights; William de Mirfield, John Sayvell de Eland, Robert de Bollyng, William de Leventhorp, William de Stansfeld and Hugh de Coppelay.

[Transcribed by John Stansfeld in his History of the Stansfeld Family p. 118]

1353-4, 1372, John Sayville of Eland and Isabel his wife, John son, and Henry his brother regarding the manors of Eland and Tankersley.

[Edw III. Yorkshire Fines]

1359. Final concord, L. H. Indenture: John Savile and wife Isabel, quer.[querent] John de Brampton, parson of Baddesworth, def.[deforciant] Manor of Elands and 1/2 Manor of Tankersly.

[Nott Arch DD/SR/209/284]

Deed: Hugh Talvas granted Richard vicar of Halifax the manor of Copley in the township of Skircoat, An.Dom. 1363.

Witnesses: John Savile de Eland, Henry Savile, John de Lacy, Will de Stansfeld, Thomas Culpon.

[Dodsworth MS117 fol.159r in Bodleian Library]

1367, 10 January. Westm' Westminster. For general attorneys. Letters of general attorney in England, for one year, for John Fitz William, kt, who is going to Gascony in the king's service, nominating Barneburgh' Roger de Barnburgh, clerk, and Robert de Morton, alternately. Mirf' William de Mirfield received the attorney

[C61/79:149]

1367, 10 January. Gascon Roll for the 40th year of the reign of Edward III For general attorneys. Letters of general attorney in England, for the same duration, for John Saville of Elland, who is going to the same parts, nominating William de Mirfield and Hugh de Wombwell, alternately. William de Mirfield, clerk, received the attorneys

[C61/79: 150]

1369, 15 April. Gascon Roll for the 43rd year of the reign of Edward III15 April 1369. Westminster. To the sheriff of Yorkshire, and the bailiffs, ministers and other faithful men in the county of Yorkshire. Appointment of Richard le Scrope, Walter de Urswick and John de Saville to choose, inspect and array 200 archers in the county of Yorkshire, both within the liberties and without, selecting them from the better, more suitable and stronger archers of that county, and bring them, suitably equipped with bows & arrows and other arms according to their status, to the port of Southampton by Monday the morrow of the octave of Trinity next, ready and prepared to set out to Aquitaine in the king's service and at his wages in the company of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, to stay there with Edward of Woodstock, prince of Aquitaine and Wales, for the safety and defence of the king's lordships and rights. They are also granted full power to arrest anyone who opposes them, and commit them to the king's prison, to stay there until the king decides their punishment. Order that the officials be intendant upon these men in this matter, advising and assisting them as required.For a full printed edition of this and the following lists, see Rymer, Foedera, vol. 3, part 2, p.864. By K and C.

[C61/82: 119]

1370, 11 June. Gascon Roll for the 44th year of the reign of Edward III 11 June 1370. Westminster. John Saville, kt. By bill, etc

[C61/83: 100-26]

1372 Final Concord R.H. Indentures: Sir John Savile of Eland knight, quer. [querent] John de Brampton, clerk, of Wadsword, def. [deforciant] Manor of Eland and Tankersley.

[Nott Arch DD/SR/209/316]

1375 Receipt. John Saville of Eland, kt. from King of Castille and Liyons and Duke of Lancaster, 10s for Pontefract castle. Anglo-Norman seal.

[Nott Arch DD/SR/231/54]

1377-99 Ct. [Court] Roll of Cts of Sir John de Sayvill, Knight (Hunsworth) Jan, Ric. 2 [1377-99] 18 May 1379; 5 Ric 2 [1381-82]

[Nott Arch DD/SR/1/6/10]

to pray for John, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Sir John Sayvill and Isabella his wife and their children, Henry, late Earl of Lancaster, John Sayvill and Margaret his wife, the parents of the said Sir John, Thomas de Eland and Joan his wife, parents of the said Isabella.

[Chantry Surveys, Surtees Soc. ii, 298]

He wished to be buried at Elland. He gave a number of legacies to various people and to his tenants at Golcar and Tankersley. John Savile of Shelley was executor.

[copy in Halifax Wills, ii, 216]

William, Bishop of Pharos, the suffragan of the archbishop, received the vow of chastity of Isabella, widow of Sir John Saville, knt., and gave her the ring and mantle.

[Reg. Scrope, 21a]